العاشِقانِ كِلاهُما مُتَغَضِّبُ

وَكِلاهُما مُتَشَوِّقٌ مُتَطَرِّبُ

Both lovers are angry,

And both are longing and troubled.

صَدَّت مُراغِمَةً وَصَدَّ مُراغِماً

وَكِلاهُما مِمّا يُعالِجُ مُتعَبُ

They refused intimacy, and refused an intimate;

Both are exhausted by what they are going through.

راجِع أَحَبَّتُكَ الَّذينَ هَجَرتَهُم

إِنَّ المُتَيَّمَ قَلَّ ما يَتَجَنَّبُ

Go back to those you loved, whom you've abandoned,

For the orphan rarely avoids.

إِنَّ التَجنُّبَ إِن تَمَكَّنَ مِنكُما

دَبَّ السُلُوُّ لَهُ فَعَزَّ المَطلَبُ

Avoidance, if it takes hold of you both,

Makes wishing impossible and the goal remote.